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Mayor Brandon Johnson hints at return of guaranteed income program

A pilot launched under former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot provided 5,000 residents with $500 a month for a year with no strings attached.

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Picture Chicago: 25 must-see photos from the week in news

Chicago communities mourn and rally after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Bears fans remember Dick Butkus and more in our best photos from the last week.

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Police board clears 2 officers of lying about 2010 fatal shooting

Then-Chicago Police Supt. David Brown filed administrative charges last October accusing the officers of making false statements in the shooting of William Hope Jr. and recommended they be fired.

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Branching out? Streets and Sanitation boss reports 172% ramp-up in Chicago tree trimming

Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Cole Stallard said Friday his crews have trimmed 53,188 trees since Jan. 1, a vast improvement over the 19,525 trees trimmed during the same period a year ago.

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Israel war: Hamas releases two US hostages from Gaza Strip after Qatar brokers deal

Judith and Natalie Raanan had been visiting Israel from their home near Chicago when Hamas fighters stormed Israel

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Kelvin Kiptum in the time of Eliud Kipchoge — how the marathon just got more interesting

Kelvin Kiptum, 23, has taken the long-distance world by storm, shattering Eliud Kipchoge's world record by 34 seconds in the Chicago Marathon. Kiptum has won three marathons in as many starts, owns three of the six fastest times in history & is aiming for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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‘Young Frankenstein’ will have you screaming with laughter at Mercury Theater Chicago

Mel Brooks’ musical comedy is a seasonally fitting giggle fest wrought with cheesy double-entendres and monstrous puns.

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Unions push to represent more workers, but organized labor’s share of jobs is declining

Organizing and mobilizing have gone on throughout the Chicago area with nurses and other health care employees, graduate teaching assistants, cannabis store crews, baristas and retail associates.

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Biden says support for Israel and Ukraine is ‘vital’ for U.S. security, will ask Congress for billions

In an Oval Office address, the president mourned the slaying of Chicago-area 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the stabbing of his mother, calling on Americans to denounce antisemitism and Islamophobia.

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Jewish, Muslim leaders warn of rise in antisemitic, anti-Muslim acts as war rages in Israel and Gaza

The Anti-Defamation League and American Muslims Assisting Neighbors are raising the alarm as tension spills over to U.S.

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300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum

After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was returned to Germany on Thursday

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Holy Halloween hoopla! Bat sightings on the rise, but don’t be spooked: ‘Bats are just really cool animals’

More bats have been sighted recently in the Chicago area as temperatures cool and the fall migration of winged creatures takes flight.

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Top mayoral aide defends decision to budget $150 million for migrant crisis — not entire cost of ‘global, national, state crisis’

Budgeted amount only covers half of estimated cost, but top mayoral adviser says, ‘Tell me the alderman who is standing up saying, ‘I want the city [to] pay $400 million or $500 million.’

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Chicago’s budget deficit may force Mayor Johnson to shift his taxation policy

The mayor and his team filled the 2024 deficit with one-time fixes. Odds are that next year will start with a budget shortfall similar to this year’s, and the available tax fixes are all regressive.

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Man in Chicago police uniform at Palestinian march in Loop spurs CPD investigation

A Chicago Sun-Times photographer took photos of the flag-waving man Wednesday. Chicago police wouldn’t confirm his identity, but he wore a uniform with a badge number of a 23-year department veteran.

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Afternoon Edition: The pop-up movement reshaping Chicago’s restaurant scene

Plus: Ald. Ramirez ‘attacked’ by protesters, La Salle Street revamp’s future, and more.

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Teen reaches $1.9 million settlement after officer shot him in gun battle with bank robbery suspect

A teenager who was shot and wounded during a 2019 shootout between suburban Chicago police and a bank robbery suspect inside a music school has reached a $1.9 million settlement with the city of Des Plaines

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So Mayor Johnson’s NOT going to Mexico?

Eric Adams, mayor of New York, just went to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia to tell them “New York City is full,” an empty gesture immediately denounced as a “paid vacation.”

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Man fatally shot by woman during fight in West Garfield Park

The man, 46, was shot in the 4300 block of West Maypole Avenue. Chicago police said the woman had a concealed carry permit.

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Ramova Theatre’s curtain will rise again in Bridgeport

In a city that’s often quick to roll the bulldozer on vacant buildings, the Ramova’s resurrection this fall shows Chicago’s architecture is always worth saving.

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Biden says intel shows Gaza hospital attack was ‘done by the other team,’ vows to stand with Israel as protests erupt worldwide

Biden reassures the Israeli people of U.S. support but warns against overreach. In Chicago, thousands gather in support of the Palestinian people. Egypt’s president vows to open border crossing into Gaza to let supplies through.

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‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett reportedly checks into rehab

The actor, who’s appealing his conviction for faking a 2019 hate crime in Chicago, entered a treatment facility’s outpatient program, TMZ reports.

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A Chicago Catholic deacon and rabbi fled Jerusalem just as Israel-Hamas war began

‘So many people are suffering when they don’t need to. We can live in harmony, that’s what all three of our religions tell us,’ said Daniel Welter, a deacon with Holy Name Cathedral.

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Things to do in Chicago Oct. 19-25: The Mix

Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade, a relocated ‘Twelfth Night’ and a museum exhibit on Jewish delis are among the entertainment highlights this week.

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